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The Journals of Sylvia Plath

The Journals of Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a young child. By the time she was at Smith College, when this book begins, she had settled into a nearly daily routine with her journal, which was also a sourcebook for her writing.
Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath

Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath is one of the defining voices in twentieth-century poetry.
Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes

Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes

Janet Malcolm

Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes Janet Malcolm ... Excerpt from unpublished material from Sylvia Plath's journals in Smith Archive. Selected excerpts from 17 pages from Letters Home by Sylvia Plath: Correspondence1950–1963 by Aurelia  ...
Collected Poems

Collected Poems

Sylvia Plath

This comprehensive volume contains all Sylvia Plath's mature poetry written from 1956 up to her death in 1963.
Winter Trees

Winter Trees

Sylvia Plath

The poems in this collection were all written in the last nine months of Sylvia Plath's life, and form part of a group from which the Ariel poems were chosen.
Ariel: The Restored Edition

Ariel: The Restored Edition

Sylvia Plath

This facsimile edition restores, for the first time, the selection and arrangement of the poems Sylvia Plath left at the point of her death.
How to Analyze the Works of Sylvia Plath

How to Analyze the Works of Sylvia Plath

Victoria Peterson-Hilleque

This title explores the creative works of famous author Sylvia Plath.
Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

Harold Bloom

larceny, masochism, sensationalism: the terms of opprobrium hurled against Sylvia Plath's use of Holocaust material generally accord with George Steiner's distress at any writer boasting “the right to put on this death-rig.”1 In 1962, the same ...
Self/Same/Other: Re-visioning the Subject in Literature and ...

Self/Same/Other: Re-visioning the Subject in Literature and ...

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Amy Benson Brown 'Curse God and Die': The Bible as Other in Sylvia Plath's Lady Lazarus' Sylvia Plath's life makes a gripping story: early death of a father, brilliant academic achievement, dramatic mental illness and, of course, the infamous ...
Rough Magic: A Biography Of Sylvia Path

Rough Magic: A Biography Of Sylvia Path

Paul Alexander

Since her suicide at age thirty, Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) has been celebrated for her impeccable and ruthless poetry. Rough Magic probes the events of Plath's life, including her turbulent marriage to the poet Ted Hughes.
Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar and Poems

Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar and Poems

Raychel Haugrud Reiff

"A biography of writer Sylvia Plath that describes her era, her major works--the novel The bell jar and her poetry--her life, and the legacy of her writing"--Provided by publisher.
The Bell Jar

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

This semi-autobiographical novel makes reference to many of the people and places in Plath's life and is one of the best-known novels of the 1960s.
Sylvia Plath: The Poetry of Initiation

Sylvia Plath: The Poetry of Initiation

Jon Rosenblatt

Sylvia Plath: The Poetry of Initiation
Surviving Literary Suicide

Surviving Literary Suicide

Jeffrey Berman

In particular it explores the work of Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Anne Sexton, Kate Chopin and William Styron.
Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness

Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness

Edward Butscher

A literary biography of the late American poet, viewing her as something of a bitch-goddess and attempting a linkage between her life's passing and her poetry's creation.
Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar

Harold Bloom

An overview of the novel features a biographical sketch of the American author, a list of characters, a summary of the plot, and critical and analytical views of the work.
The Norton Introduction to Literature

The Norton Introduction to Literature

More editions

Presents a collection of stories, poems, and plays, both classic and contemporary, by such authors as Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner, John Keats, and Sylvia Plath.
Sylvia Plath: An Introduction to the Poetry

Sylvia Plath: An Introduction to the Poetry

Susan Bassnett

Now thoroughly revised and expanded in the light of recent research, the second edition of this essential text contains new chapters and more close reading of the poetry.
Sylvia Plath: An Introduction to the Poetry

Sylvia Plath: An Introduction to the Poetry

Susan Bassnett

Now thoroughly revised and expanded in the light of recent research, the second edition of this essential text contains new chapters and more close reading of the poetry.
Ariel

Ariel

Sylvia Plath

' A. Alvarez in the Observer This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series with five other cherished poets, including Wendy Cope, Don Paterson, Philip Larkin, Simon Armitage and Alice Oswald.
Sylvia Plath: A Biography

Sylvia Plath: A Biography

Connie Ann Kirk

Using unabridged journals and the Ted Hughes archives, presents the life and accomplishments of the famous poet and novelist who wrote "The Bell Jar."
Sylvia Plath - Tightropes Walk Between Genius and Insanity?

Sylvia Plath - Tightropes Walk Between Genius and Insanity?

Jeannette Nedoma

Essay from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,5, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (Anglistik/ Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: 1.
Critical essays on Sylvia Plath

Critical essays on Sylvia Plath

Linda Wagner-Martin

Essays include writings from the author's native country and abroad, with interpretations from the time they were writing, through the present day.Each volume includes: -- An introduction providing the reader with a lucid overview of ...
The Cambridge Companion to the Graphic Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the Graphic Novel

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Yaël Schlick describes Barry's work as “highly intertextual,” noting an incredible array of references in What It Is to Japanese Zen scrolls, Richard Adams' Watership Down, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, D. W. Winnicott's psychoanalytical writings, ...
A Beautiful Mind

A Beautiful Mind

Sylvia Nasar

Sylvia Nasar ... Faber Ltd Bloomsbury House 74–77 Great Russell Street London WC1B 3DA This ebook edition first published in 2012 All rights reserved © Sylvia Nasar, 1998 The right of Sylvia Nasar to be identified as author of this work has ...
Contemporary Literary Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of ...

Contemporary Literary Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of ...

Sharon Gunton

... Solzhenitsyn 10:480 Lucid, Robert F. Ernest Hemingway 6:232 Norman Mailer 4:323 Lucie-Smith, Edward Sylvia Plath 9:424 Luckett, Richard Anthony Powell 7: 339 Robert Penn Warren 6:555 Edmund Wilson 3:540 Luckey, Eleanore Braun ...
Poet and Critic: The Letters of Ted Hughes and Keith Sagar

Poet and Critic: The Letters of Ted Hughes and Keith Sagar

Ted Hughes

A collection of 144 letters between Hughes and the literary critic Sagar provides insight into the poet's life and creative process, including his relationship with Sylvia Plath.

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